Letter from Gen Studholme Hodgson, Colonel of the 4th Regiment of Foot to Col Adam Williamson, Deputy Adjutant General, 28 Jul 1782.
Writes that the Regiment has no desire to ‘forfeit the respectable name it now bears’ and hopes that the plan ‘is only meant to extend to those Regiments which have no other distinction but that of a number.’
From a group of 52 letters replying to letters from Adam Williamson asking each of the Colonels of the Regiments of Foot to choose a county name, 1782.